Watch how your child naturally engages with new information at home — whether they gravitate toward pictures and drawing, ask questions and talk things through, want to touch and build, or prefer reading and writing things down. A school using inquiry-based teaching, like the IB, can also help identify this through varied classroom activities and assessments.

Unlike curricula built around a single teaching and testing method, the IB uses inquiry-based learning and multiple assessment formats — oral presentations, projects, portfolios, and written work — so students are taught and evaluated in ways suited to how they individually learn best, not just one standard exam format.

Learning style differences can be gently supported from early primary years onward. IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) classrooms build in multi-sensory activities from the start, so children are never forced into one mode of learning before they're ready to explore what works for them.

Yes — most children are a blend of two or more styles rather than a single fixed type. This is one of the key reasons flexible, inquiry-based teaching methods tend to serve real classrooms better than a one-size-fits-all approach.